I'm guessing that Russian data center has been repaired.

It was nice to have a break from this shit for a few days though.

He's some guy who works for Tim Apple I think.

Nah. The problem here is that the studies I've seen suggest skills atrophy when people become reliant on AI. So the likelihood is that Torvalds will, ultimately, deteriorate to that junior software dev you intensely dislike.\

The good news though is that if you're a C programmer, then even if you're the kind of C programmer who thinks Rust isn't necessary because only stupid C programmers make mistakes, unlike you, you're perfect (etc, you've seen the type, and would not touch a line of their code), you will probably be a better C programmer than Linux Torvalds within a year or two.

Alas, it won't be because you're any better at C programming.

> Is it? We have no means to test for this.

Oh FFS. It's a mathematical algorithm. Implemented on a rock. It's 100% abstract. So no, it can't feel pain.

You're so desperate to be "clever" you've gone around the circle right into the unimaginably-stupid zone.

Have you considered though the possibility that some of the smartest computer scientists in the world might also be incredibly stupid. I mean, this is the impression I'm increasingly getting as people who know how the fucking technology works insist that they're found the solution to sentience and it's... word prediction algorithms.
 

If Meta is going all in on AI, maybe it'll cause them to collapse when the bubble bursts.

Mediocrity has worked for them since the late 2000s, as it has for companies from Microsoft to MacDonalds. Google once had a decent search engine, and Apple a decent set of personal computers, but both at some point said "Fuck it, let's be sub-mediocre" and lost virtually no market share. Mediocrity is where it's at, why change now?

It seems to boil down to "They valued their user's privacy and so refused to use a company that funnels some ungodly portion of the Internet, decrypting and the re-encrypting it, through its servers."

Just because a "solution" to a problem exists doesn't make it appropriate or better than nothing "CommunityMember".

What question do you think was being answered by that wall of text? Because it wasn't a question the GP was asking.

"So Goldfinger, I suppose you expect me to talk"

"Good catch! You're absolutely right. You're right to push back, I am not expecting you to talk. There are several reasons I can't expect you to talk:

1. You're well known as a spy who is uncorruptable and has been threatened by far worse than a laser table.
2. You would likely spend the time trying to escape, rather than answering my question.
3. I would not be able to trust any answer you give anyway, because you would be seconds away from death while it would take much longer for me to determine if your answers are true.

In fact, I expect you to die. You not being alive any more would solve several issues, such as preventing you from interfering with my plans in future, or killing me by shooting out a window in a plane causing me to be sucked out into the air.

Would you like to ask me how to escape from the laser table, or how to find Pussy Galore's phone number?

Yeah that changes the context somewhat. There's a difference between "We should remove the bi-annual time change, it's unhealthy" (which I agree with and would like to happen) and the wishful thinking "WhAt iF iT wAs SuMmEr aLl yEaR rOuNd" crap that seems beloved of legislators and others who sort of agree that the bi-annual time changes need to go, but have the worst idea of how to implement it.

This paper isn't advocating for keeping bi-annual time changes. It's advocating for standard time. And I agree standard time is probably a better approach, even if some people get butt hurt about the idea of it not still being light at 9pm in the middle of August.

> 2. Democratic voters tend to be more concerned about the environment.

This is technically true but is counterbalanced by the fact rural areas tend to be extremely NIMBY. Unbelievably so. It's hard to get permission to rebuild a dilapidated strip mall, let alone build a data center.

There's a railroad near where I live that was freight only, but wanted to run passenger trains - completely unsubsidized (beyond a tax free loan, and I've never bought the argument "tax free" means subsidized, but that's for another day) - on the same lines. Virtually nothing changed. No impact on the local community. Two trains an hour tying up railroad crossings for a maximum of 20-30 seconds, a minute an hour.

Every fucking "community" North of the Miami-West Palm Beach-Jupiter metropolis raised objections. This was for an existing railroad, with zero impact beyond long sought after safety improvements and quiet zones!

You think rural areas are going to support building actual buildings?

Pffft.

Indeed, I wonder if it'd be easier, even if as you point out more expensive, to build a data center in a city. Just renovate an existing industrial building and hope nobody sees the planning notices.

No worse than virtually all other scripting languages! I'd be hard pressed to find a scripting language that's significantly better than JS when it comes to type handling.

Unpopular view: Javascript itself is a decent language, it's the fact it has to be used with the DOM in most contexts that makes it unpleasant. Give it a set of Python/PHP/Java/etc style desktop libraries and most people would have no problem with it. But because everyone encounters it within the context of a web browser as a scripting language for web pages, it gets a bad rap.

That said, I recall the original Eich JS being kinda sucky, with little or no OOPs beyond associative arrays. So there's that.

The biggest issue here is that the bigots managed to rewrite history, and managed to persuade most people that Mozilla "fired" Eich for his opinions, when in fact Mozilla ignored his blatant bigotry when it happened, and considered him worthy of promoting to CEO despite effectively calling 10% of the (blameless) people he'd lead a danger to children, co-funding a political campaign that was promoting that blood libel.

They say Mozilla fired him. Mozilla did no such thing. Mozilla promoted him to CEO. They saw blood libels against gay people as no barrier to leading a massive team of people.

The rest of the world voiced their disgust, Mozilla started to lose users at an alarming rate within days of the announcement, and Eich saw he had to go, so he quit, despite Mozilla's backing.

Mozilla isn't "woke", they're the exact opposite. That's why they've embraced fashtech so enthusiastically despite it being such a danger to the open web. They're gross. The only reason to use Firefox is literally that the alternative is fashtech and at least Firefox is second hand fashtech.

But whenever this troll posts, can we PLEASE set the story straight because I'm so fed up with seeing this bullshit that Eich was fired, when he was actually promoted to CEO. And resigned because of world wide disgust, not because of a single Mozilla employee expressing concern.

Depends. If they're afraid of heights they probably shouldn't have a job cleaning the windows of skyscrapers. And if they promote the lie that gays are a danger to children, they probably shouldn't be leading any organization sufficiently large enough that 5-10% of their employees are likely gay.

Regardless, Eich wasn't fired by Mozilla, he was promoted to CEO. Mozilla explicitly endorsed his views. It was the rest of the world that voiced their disgust, and Eich resigned after it became clear more than 5-10% of humanity was going to have nothing to do with Mozilla if he continued in that position.

Mozilla should be ashamed of itself, for its blessing of homophobia and endorsement of a blood libel, not for something it never did.